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Jared Kushner 's December meeting with Russian banker Sergey Gorkov is a focus in the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, sources told ABC News. In the wake of reports that Kushner, the president's son-in-law, discussed establishing back-channel communications with the

The last Russian oligarch to challenge President Vladimir Putin politically -- and pay dearly for it -- says he's ready to try again. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once Russia's richest man and the head of Russian energy giant Yukos. But after he made political moves against Putin, he was quickly tried

Anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny, the most prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was convicted of embezzlement today in what he had denounced as a political show trial. Navalny was sentenced to five years in prison and given a large fine. He and a co-defendant,...

ABC's Alexander Marquardt reports from Moscow: At first glance it looks like a high school art exhibit: many of the drawings hanging from twine on the sterile gallery’s walls are amateurish sketches, others detailed portraits, some fantastical cartoons. As in...

President Obama gave an interview to the most independent publication in Russia, Novaya Gazet, which has been highly critical of the Kremlin. The interview seemed to have been a way to build up Russian President Dmitry Medvedev - who also gave Novaya Gazet a recent interview -- and to seemingly ...

A Russian court issued a warrant on Tuesday for the arrest of billionaire Mikhail Gutseriyev, who has accused the state of using tax evasion charges to force him out of his Russneft oil business. The warrant for Gutseriyev, who prosecutors believe is outside Russia, could hinder a plan by

SOMALIA Somali Raids Miss Terror Suspects The US air strikes in Somalia failed to kill any of the three al-Qaeda suspects they targeted, a top US official says. ( BBC ) Somali Elders Say About 100 Killed in US, Ethiopian Air Strikes Somali clan elders and residents of southern Somalia have said

SOMALIA Troops Enter Mogadishu; Refugees Drown Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian forces rolled into Mogadishu without firing a shot Thursday, a striking gain in its bid to recapture the country from an Islamic movement that had once seemed nearly invincible. ( AP ) Eyewitness:

One hundred or more people were killed when Russian troops stormed a school Friday in a chaotic battle to free parents, teachers and children who had been held hostage for 53 hours by Chechen separatists, news wires report. And, F.B.I. counterintelligence agents are investigating whether several